Southwark College

Southwark College is a further education college located in the London Borough of Southwark. The college at one time had seven sites; it is now based at a building on The Cut, opposite Southwark tube station.

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Type: Commerce
Description: further education college in London
Also known as: “LeSoCo”
Address: 25 The Cut, London, SE1 8LE

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Leicester Square and Young Vic.

Leicester Square

Photo: Aurelien Guichard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The area around Leicester Square, often called the West End, is the entertainment heart of London. The area also includes Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square.

Young Vic

Theater building

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The Young Vic Theatre is a performing-arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth, United Kingdom. The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Young Vic is situated 350 feet west of Southwark College.

The Old Vic

Theater building

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The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, nonprofit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England. It was established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, and renamed in 1833 the Royal Victoria Theatre. The Old Vic is situated 900 feet southwest of Southwark College.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Southwark and St George’s Circus.

Southwark

Suburb

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Southwark is a district of Central London situated on the south bank of the River Thames, forming the north-western part of the wider modern London Borough of Southwark.

St George’s Circus

Locality

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St George's Circus is a road junction in Southwark, London, England. At its centre, which is now a traffic roundabout, is an historic obelisk, designed by Robert Mylne, in his role as surveyor and architect of Blackfriars Bridge.